Modelling lane changing behaviour of heavy commercial vehicles

Traffic congestion has a significant effect on driving patterns and the lane changing behaviours of drivers. It is believed that, drivers have different lane changing patterns in free flow conditions and congested traffic conditions. This paper provides a review on existing lane changing models and their suitability to model lane changing behaviour of heavy vehicles. In addition, this paper explains the limitations of the current lane changing models in estimating the lane changing behaviour of heavy vehicles. Furthermore, it will present a framework to capture the lane changing behaviour of heavy vehicles. Finally, some insights to future work are presented.